Why 40 Percent of Your Business Is Unprofitable and How to Fix It

Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In

by David Calhoun, Rick Kash

With the recent global recession, the world economy has changed forever. The old tools — most notably supply-chain management — are no longer enough. The new challenge is to locate and capture the elusive pools of high-profit demand. In this executive summary of How Companies Win, Rick Kash and David Calhoun have the answer: a revolutionary, demand-driven model that has already proved successful for some of the world's most admired companies.

Why Some People Have It and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Jeffrey Pfeffer, one of the greatest minds in management theory, reveals how to succeed and wield power in the real world. This executive summary of his latest book, Power, is a groundbreaking guide that reveals the strategies and tactics that separate the winners from the losers.

The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewThe printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery—these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines.

Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

by Nancy Duarte

In this executive book summary of Nancy Duarte's bestselling book Resonate, you will learn how to transform any presentation into an engaging journey by leveraging techniques normally reserved for cinema and literature. You will discover how to understand your audience, create persuasive content and elicit a groundswell response.

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Friedman

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewDon't tell Christopher Columbus about this book. Pulitzer-Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman gives an account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightening-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before, creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place.

A Leader’s Legacy is a compilation of powerful essays that explore the question of leadership and legacy. These essays are grouped into categories covering significance, relationships, aspirations and courage. The authors examine critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a positive and lasting impact.

Building on The Art of Innovation, which celebrated the work culture that distinguishes his high-profile, award-winning industrial design firm IDEO, Kelley and coauthor Littman demonstrate how a culture of continuous innovation and renewal can be nurtured and sustained in The Ten Faces of Innovation. The authors look at 10 personas in the workplace, such as anthropologists, who contribute insights by observing human behavior; experimenters, who try new things; hurdlers, who sur